Southern Methodist University Press records, 1930-1985.

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Southern Methodist University Press records, 1930-1985.

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Southern Methodist University Press was founded in 1937, and in its seventy-year history it has specialized in the publication of works on the history and culture of the Southwest. The collection covers a fifty-year period of time, with most of the material dating from the 1940s through the 1970s. Included in the collection is correspondence, book production and promotion materials such as review copy lists and mail-outs, manuscripts and book proofs, material from the Texas Folklore Society, and SMU Press budget records.

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Southern Methodist University DeGolyer Library

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Southern Methodist University Press.

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Southern Methodist University opened for classes in 1915, but it was not until twenty years later when interest in establishing a university publishing group culminated in the creation of SMU Press in 1937. SMU English professor John McGinnis was the driving force behind the initiative, and he directed the Press for its first few years of operation. Donald Day took over as editor for a brief period after him. Along with McGinnis, SMU President Umphrey Lee, Bishop A. Fran...

Texas Folklore Society

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The Texas Folklore Society was founded on December 29, 1909 in Dallas, by Leonidas Warren Payne and John Avery Lomax, with the purpose of preserving and presenting Texas folklore. The organization is now located at Stephen F. Austin University in Nacogdoches, Texas. From the description of Texas Folklore Society records, 1909-1970. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 70706014 ...